These airstrikes were launched not because U.S. officials were prescient. They came after the Obama administration found and quietly fixed a colossal miscalculation. U.S. intelligence had grossly overestimated the damage they’d inflicted during airstrikes on the militants’ oil production apparatus last year, while underestimating Islamic State’s oil revenue by $400 million.
That's four times as much as the administration had previously believed they were getting, and doesn't count income from the slave trade, general crime and extortion in its area of operation, etc.
Could buy a lot of fake passports from the Turkish underground. The Muslims in Turkey are open to bribes too for that amount of scaling.
ReplyDelete"They came after the Obama administration found and quietly fixed a colossal miscalculation."
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I'd call it a "miscalculation".
Um, let's try that link again.
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